Pycnomerus Erichson 1842

Genus Pycnomerus Erichson, 1842 Remarks. The specimen considered here was assigned to the genus Pycnomerus on the basis of the following morphological characters: (1) tarsal formula 4-4-4; (2) procoxal process expanded at apex, wider than coxal cavity, with apex truncate; (3) procoxal cavities externally closed; (4) pro- and metacoxae widely separated; (5) antennal setation sparse; (6) body glabrous, parallel-sided; (7) eyes rounded, entire (not divided by genal canthus), finely faceted, without interfacetal setae; (8) each elytron with 10 striae; (9) subantennal grooves indistinct; and (10) hypomeron without antennal cavities.
Published as part of Bukejs, Andris, Alekseev, Vitalii I., Cooper, David M. L., King, Gavin A. & Mckellar, Ryan C., 2019, A new fossil species of Pycnomerus Erichson (Coleoptera: Zopheridae) from Baltic amber, and a replacement name for a Recent North American congener, pp. 565-572 in Zootaxa 4550 (4) on page 566, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4550.4.6, http://zenodo.org/record/2625675